1. A book is published in three volumes, the pages being numbered from 1 onwards.

The
page

numbers are continued from the first volume to the second volume to the third. The
number

of pages in the second volume is 50 more than that in the first volume, and the number
pages

in the third volume is one and a half times that in the second. The sum of the page
numbers

on the first pages of the three volumes is 1709. If n is the last page number, what is the
largest

prime factor of n?

2. In a quadrilateral ABCD, it is given that AB = AD = 13,BC = CD = 20,BD = 24. If r is the

radius of the circle inscribable in the quadrilateral, then what is the integer closest to r?

3. Consider all 6-digit numbers of the form abccba where b is odd. Determine the
number of all

such 6-digit numbers that are divisible by 7.

4, The equation 166⇥56 = 8590 is valid in some base b 10 (that is, 1, 6, 5, 8, 9, 0 are
digits in base

b in the above equation). Find the sum of all possible values of b 10 satisfying the
equation.

5. Let ABCD be a trapezium in which AB k CD and AD ? AB. Suppose ABCD has an incircle

which touches AB at Q and CD at P. Given that P C = 36 and QB = 49, find P Q.

6. Integers a, b, c satisfy a + b c = 1 and a2 + b2 c2 = 1. What is the sum of all possible

values of a2 + b2 + c2?

7. A point P in the interior of a regular hexagon is at distances 8,8,16 units from three
consecutive vertices of the hexagon, respectively. If r is radius of the circumscribed circle
of the

hexagon, what is the integer closest to r?

8. Let AB be a chord of a circle with centre O. Let C be a point on the circle such
that \ABC =

30 and O lies inside the triangle ABC. Let D be a point on AB such that \DCO = \OCB =
20.

Find the measure of \CDO in degrees.

9. Suppose a, b are integers and a + b is a root of x2 + ax + b = 0. What is the maximum

possible

value of b2?

10. In a triangle ABC, the median from B to CA is perpendicular to the median from C to
AB.

If the median from A to BC is 30, determine (BC2 + CA2 + AB2)/100.

11. There are several tea cups in the kitchen, some with handles and the others without

handles. The number of ways of selecting two cups without a handle and three with a
handle

is exactly 1200. What is the maximum possible number of cups in the kitchen?

13. In a triangle ABC, right-angled at A, the altitude through A and the internal
bisector of

\A have lengths 3 and 4, respectively. Find the length of the median through A.

14. If x = cos 1 cos 2 cos 3 ··· cos 89 and y = cos 2 cos 6 cos 10 ··· cos 86, then what is
the integer

nearest to 2

7 log2(y/x) ?

15. Let a and b be natural numbers such that 2a b, a 2b and a + b are all distinct
squares.

What is the smallest possible value of b?

16. What is the value of

17. Triangles ABC and DEF are such that \A = \D, AB = DE = 17, BC = EF = 10 and

AC DF = 12. What is AC + DF?

18. If a, b, c 4 are integers, not all equal, and 4abc = (a + 3)(b + 3)(c + 3), then
what is the value

of a + b + c?

19. Let N = 6 + 66 + 666 + ··· + 666 ··· 66, where there are hundred 6’s in the last
term in the

sum. How many times does the digit 7 occur in the number N?

20. Determine the sum of all possible positive integers n, the product of whose digits
equals

n2 15n 27.

21. Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle and let H be its orthocentre. Let G1, G2 and
G3 be

the centroids of the triangles HBC, HCA and HAB, respectively. If the area of triangle
G1G2G3

is 7 units, what is the area of triangle ABC?

22. A positive integer k is said to be good if there exists a partition of {1, 2, 3,..., 20} in
to

disjoint proper subsets such that the sum of the numbers in each subset of the
partition is k.

How many good numbers are there?

23. What is the largest positive integer n such that

24. If N is the number of triangles of different shapes (i.e., not similar) whose angles
are all

integers (in degrees), what is N/100?

25. Let T be the smallest positive integer which, when divided by 11, 13, 15 leaves
remainders

in the sets {7, 8, 9}, {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6} respectively. What is the sum of the squares of
the digits of

T?

26. What is the number of ways in which one can choose 60 unit squares from a 11
⇥ 11

chessboard such that no two chosen squares have a side in common?

27. What is the number of ways in which one can colour the squares of a 4⇥4
chessboard with

colours red and blue such that each row as well as each column has exactly two red
squares

and two blue squares?

28. Let N be the number of ways of distributing 8 chocolates of different brands

among 3

children such that each child gets at least one chocolate, and no two children get the
same

number of chocolates. Find the sum of the digits of N.

29. Let D be an interior point of the side BC of a triangle ABC. Let I1 and I2 be the
incentres

of triangles ABD and ACD respectively. Let AI1 and AI2 meet BC in E and F
respectively. If
\BI1E = 60, what is the measure of \CI2F in degrees?

30. Let P(x) = a0 + a1x + a2x2 + ··· + anxn be a polynomial in which ai is a non-
negative integer

for each i 2 {0, 1, 2, 3, ··· , n}. If P(1) = 4 and P(5) = 136, what is the value of P(3)?